Up early, or late from previous day, depending on the point of view, re-recording Suite ("Sol[ar]"): IV. Earth, doing a video of same, and posting on YouTube. After a respite, at home all day with Harriet, doing the daily 21st-Century Music work, pdf of third page Street Songs: XIV. You Ain't Seen, composition of Psalm 87 (the beginning) and The Decameron (8), and actually pretty much clearing the inbox for the first time this year.
Rebecca Kim checks in re an upcoming Earle Brown Festival, details of which will go online February 15, and we track down the Earle interview (a great guy and a great composer) in 20th-Century Music, plus a few articles on Centering and the creator's 70th-Birthday Celebration back in 2006 with San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. Meanwhile, Rebecca finds some relevant items in the 21st-Century Music online archive (21st-centurymusic.com), and it seems like all these pieces will find their way into a definitive Brown Bibliography -- very gratifying to hear, indeed. By the time our back and forth correspondence ends for the day, it is late here and even later there (she has a Columbia University email address, and a youngster, encouraging her to get substantive work done in the wee hours)...
Also work on some press material, collecting comments / reactions to the music over the years, do new brass and string quintet pdf scores and recordings (with the Garishtone Ensemble, learning a bit more how to control volume through the Instruments List) of Business As Usual: Ia. Torculus Man, and send off most of this to Orchestra 2001 and the San Jose Chamber Orchestra...
Oh yes, Harriet and I additionally rehearse The Wind God: VIII. I Loved Him, in preparation for the Valentine's Day show, burning her a CD for her independent practice --
and some of the above done while Upstairs, Downstairs -- Season 3 Episode 11 "A Perfect Stranger" perfectly unfolds in the background...
